I’m in the process of putting together a set of family yearbooks using Blurb’s software and printing services. I’ve done a couple of them, and they turned out quite well; today, I decided I’d go back to 1997, when I got my first digital camera, and redo an album I did then. Why redo it? Simply, because we’ll get better prints from Blurb than I did from my inkjet in those long lost days, and because we can make multiple copies.

Anyway, I’ve got all of the pictures; at least, I’ve got all of the pictures as they came out of the camera. But there are half-a-dozen or so pictures that I doctored to include my eldest (then eight months old) in odd places or at odd sizes.

They’re all gone.

I’m pretty good at archiving things I want to keep; I have files on my computer that go back to the very first computer I ever owned, a Kaypro 4 I bought in 1984.

Those early albums were done in PageMaker on a Windows PC. Some years ago, long after getting a Mac and discovering that PageMaker was no longer available, I guess I deleted them; and apparently I deleted the doctored images as well. I’m going to have to try scanning the pages from my old album…but considering the originals were edited 640×480 JPEGs, I’m not sanguine about the results.

Sigh.